Month: November 2012

These are my fantastically selected links for November 14th, 2012 from 08:37 to 22:04:

• 12 ‘Sesame Street’ Scandals That Have Plagued The Show’s History –
• Man Arrested for Picking Up $27, Files $1 Million Lawsuit –
• One Simple Trick Could Disable a City’s 4G Network –
• Practicing Meditation or Exercising Will Make You Sick Less Often –
• Check Out These Hidden Gems in Disney Pixar’s ‘Brave’ –
• BlackBerry Messenger Now Does Voice Chats for Free Over Wi-Fi –
• The App Store Is Full Of Bogus Health Apps –
• Ceramic Bowl Purifies Water Without Chemicals –
• New Study Indicates False Memories Linger For Years –
• All-Out Legalization of Weed Could Soon Be Coming to These Four States –
• Budweiser provided canned water for Sandy victims –
• NASA’s 3-D Printing of Rocket Engine Parts Might Boost Larger Manufacturing Trend –
• Mobile Traffic to Electric Companies Soared 16,000% During Hurricane Sandy –
• Superman Kookycraft Papercraft –
• Still Hate Apple Maps? Nokia Is Here To Help –
• Deforestation Adds More Atmospheric CO2 than the Sum Total of Cars & Trucks on the World’s Roads –
• Bronx Cemetery Suffers Mass Corpse Exodus –
• How Abraham Lincoln Developed Modern War Technology –
• New 'Oz The Great And Powerful' Trailer Shows James Franco & Mila Kunis In A Mystical Land –
• Hilarious Take on What Windows 95 Tips Should Have Told Us [PICS] –
• After Sandy, the Coney Island Wonder Wheel Spins Again –
• FYI: What’s The Darkest Material On Earth? –
• Android Market Share Jumps to 72 Percent [REPORT] –

These are my fantastically selected links for November 14th, 2012 from 02:45 to 06:00:

• Whisky Advent Calendar –
• From the GeekDad Community: Last Chance to Read The Hobbit –
• Why Is the Bass So Overwhelming in Live Concerts? –
• Free coffee, next exit –
• Coconut Saffron Scalloped Potatoes –
• Google Play Music Updates App With Gapless Playback, Auto Instant Mixes [VIDEO] –

These are my links for November 13th, 2012 through November 14th, 2012:

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• How To Extract DNA From A Strawberry, Right In Your Own Kitchen –
• 7 Landmark Tech Laws Passed in 2012 –
• Graphing Calculator Gets First Update In A Billion Years, Still Costs Almost As Much As A Chromebook –
• Gene For Dementia Risk Might Make Carriers More Clever During Youth –

These are my fantastically selected links for November 13th, 2012 from 08:43 to 13:57:

• Scientists can use satellites to track how much raw sewage Sandy deposited in our waterways –
• Bacterial Disease Threatens Coconut Gene Bank –
• Deglon Meeting Knife Set –
• Inside NASA’s New Spaceship for Asteroid Missions –
• ‘Esquire’ Gets Shareable, Shoppable Digital Overlay –
• Jon Hamm And Daniel Radcliffe Bathe Together In New Trailer For British Miniseries –
• The Dutch may actually have TOO MANY bikes –
• Why the Smartphone Isn’t Mainstream … Yet –
• Apple Has Twice the Sales Per Square Foot of Any Other U.S. Retailer –
• Labor Dispute Could Finally Bankrupt Hostess, Wipe Out World Twinkie Supply –
• Birthday Boy Learns Darth Vader Is His Father –
• 470,000 People Petition Macy’s to Fire Trump –
• 99 red balloons can power 4,500 homes –
• Bloomberg to Launch iTunes-Style App Store Today –
• Farm runoff leads to a rise in eight-legged frogs –
• Why retweets may not be the best Twitter marketing metric –
• Gyft Takes The Taboo Out Of Regifting, Through Facebook –
• Jon Stewart Can’t Believe He Didn’t Catch ‘Innuendo After Innuendo’ In His Broadwell Interview –
• Fender’s iOS-Friendly Stratocaster Guitar Comes to Apple Store –

These are my links for November 12th, 2012 through November 13th, 2012:

• Page Turners: Geekdad Holiday Gift Guide #2 — Books, Chapter Two! –
• Tumblr sets sights on major UK advertisers –
• Effortless –
• Apple Takes Cue From Google, Encourages Employees to Work on Pet Projects [REPORT] –
• Get Your Bill Cosby Fix at LOL-Worthy ‘Instant Cosby’ Website –
• Oyster App Brings Ebook Library to Your Pocket –
• Zapd Creates Instant Websites Using Your iPhone –

These are my fantastically selected links for November 12th, 2012 from 01:59 to 17:16:

• This Plastic Can Heal Itself in 30 Minutes –
• Chevron to poor California town: ‘Thanks, but we’d rather pollute’ –
• Cyberattack Reveals Middle Eastern Spy Network –
• Twitter limit: University of Washington caps live game coverage for media, threatens credential revocation –
• Yahoo Apologizes for Epic Fantasy Football Fail –
• HBO To Air Louis C.K. Stand-Up Comedy Special In 2013 –
• How Teachers Will Use E-Readers to Catch Cheaters –
• Don’t Fall for This Fake Image of India During Diwali From Space –
• Corals Emit Chemical Alarm to Summon Friendly Fish When Attacked –
• Solar-powered generators save Sandy victims from waiting in line for gas –
• Total Solar Eclipse Occurs Tuesday: How to Watch Online –
• Google Ad Revenue Now More Than U.S. Print Publications Combined [CHART] –
• Businessweek Ranks Schools on Girls’ Hotness –
• Pinterest’s secret boards give content marketers an edge –
• Christmas Comes Early: Demonoid’s BitTorrent Tracker Returns, Potentially Heralds Revival –
• Gay Marriage Victories Give New Life To This Banned Guinness Ad From 1995 –
• Apple Paid a Cool $21 Million to License the Clock Design They Stole –
• Man Gets Struck By Police Car, Stuck With Repair Bill –
• Page Turners: Geekdad Holiday Gift Guide #2 — Books, Chapter One –
• Enjoy Your Apollo-Era Conspiracy With The Cassandra Project –
• When you don't know what to do… –
• ‘Angry Birds Star Wars’ is More Addictive Fun Fans Want [REVIEW] –

These are my links for November 10th, 2012 through November 11th, 2012:

• Weekly output: iPad mini, iPad mini vs. Nexus 7 vs. Kindle Fire HD, Galaxy Note II, lost phones, deactivated phones –
• Apple Pays Swiss Federal Railways $21 Million For Clock Icon [VIDEO] –
• Number of Female Senators Tripled in the Last 20 Years [INFOGRAPHIC] –
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• Apple and HTC End Their Global Patent Battle –
• Guillermo Del Toro is Interested in Bringing Justice League Dark to The Big Screen –
• Cooking on a Ration – Nutty Sweet Potato Casserole –
• Grasket App Helps Deployed Troops Share Wish Lists With Loved Ones Overseas –
• Watch This: MythBusters Apparently to Air Cannonball Accident Tonight –
• Weekly Rewind: A $13 ARM Single-Board Computer –
• You can't argue with success… –
• One Dock Works With Apple and Samsung Gadgets [VIDEO] –
• Racist Who Threatened Obama Doesn’t ‘Understand What She Did Wrong’ [VIDEO] –
• Ormr Does What You Wish Photoshop Could [VIDEO] –
• This Tool Will Archive Your Entire Online Life –
• 20 Fascinating Facts We Learned From Reddit in 2012 –
• Mitt Romney Is Losing 847 Facebook Friends Per Hour –
• 9 Things You Didn’t Know About The Beatles –
• Where do you go to trade in the points? –
• This Computer Costs Just $13 [VIDEO] –

These are my fantastically selected links for November 9th, 2012 from 12:30 to 21:36:

• Can Fitness Ever Be as Addictive as Angry Birds? –
• Supersized Facebook Messages Crash Tablets –
• Ticks are turning victims in vegetarians –
• Feline Frisky With Cats That Look Like Pin-Up Girls –
• How Does a Zebrafish Regrow Its Brain? We’re One Step Closer To Understanding –
• Street Art Mural Gets Vandalized by Community Members Without “Permit” –
• Vintage PopSci: Carl Sagan Advocates For Life On Mars –
• Turn Your iPhone Camera Into a Right Angle Lens [VIDEO] –
• New Yorkers Use Craigslist to Skirt Gas Rationing Rules –
• Famed Street Artist’s Work Adorns NYC Subway… Legally –
• Facebook Experiments With ‘Reply’ Button on Comments –
• Twitter Confirms Tweet Delivery Issue –
• Hurricane Sandy Leaves New Jersey Liquor Lovers High and Dry –
• Grist’s theme for November: What’s next for the climate? –
• Progressive Insurance Claims High Engagement For Halloween Tweet –
• Your Scrambled Eggs Are Wrong, And Other Cooking Science Lessons From America’s Test Kitchen –
• Woman Buys iPad From Stranger at Gas Station, Surprised to Find Mirror Instead –
• 8 Of Stanley Kubrick’s Greatest Technological Innovations –
• Eggs Take Note: Twitter Offers Animated ‘How To’ For Profile Images –
• Galleries Struggle to Recover in the Wake of Sandy –

These are my fantastically selected links for November 8th, 2012 from 15:48 to 19:22:

• This Siri Smartwatch Could Change Everything –
• NASA Builds Interplanetary Internet, Controls LEGO Robot From Space –
• Apple Patents Packaging That Doubles as a Dock –
• Mystery Animal Contest: Hello, Little Puffball –
• Top 100 Brands on Google+ Have a Total Audience of 23 Million –
• Daniel Day Lewis Spoofs Clint Eastwood’s Chair Act During Acceptance Speech –

These are my fantastically selected links for November 8th, 2012 from 11:37 to 15:16:

• Google Jam Lets You Play Music With Friends Via Chrome Browser –
• Verizon Won’t Charge Sandy Victims for Calls and Texts During Storm –
• Baby Birds Use Unique Passwords To Unlock Dinner –
• Could hemp make a resurgence thanks to marijuana legalization? –
• This concrete can heal its own cracks, because it’s packed with bacteria –
• Winter Storms Now Have Names? Yes, Thanks to Social Media –
• Hackers Love Android Gingerbread –
• Microsoft vet Doug Hebenthal sets sail after 21 years, lands at Amazon –
• Stone Blades Suggest that Early Humans Passed on Technological Skills –
• Four teenage girls in Africa have invented a generator powered by pee –
• Pacific Islands of Tokelau First Territory To Be 100% Solar Powered –
• New York Times Makes Ad Buy for ‘Nate Silver’ on Twitter –
• MTA Holds First Fare Hike Hearing –
• Pinterest Introduces Secret Boards –
• Study Links Dietary Glycemic Load and Colon Cancer –